Ryan Alcorn, founder of GrantExec, describes how his team used to hunt for grants through word-of-mouth, news reports, and a messy Excel spreadsheet. That approach was already failing five or six years ago, which led him to build a better tool.
We were aware that there were likely opportunities that we'd hear about, as you said, through word of mouth or through the news talking about grants being deployed in certain places, but we didn't have a central repository. So the best we could do at the time was an Excel sheet of links, which was obviously not, not the way to go even just 5, 6 years ago.
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